A few updates from my visit to Disneyland/Disney’s California Adventure on Friday. The Spring Break crowds seem to finally be gone, and crowd levels were more what I would expect on a post-Spring Break week-day afternoon. Nice.

The featured entertainment at Taste, the finale event of the Food and Wine Festival, will be a Korean group called Nanta. Definitely fits in with their World Celebration theme this year! Here’s some information on the group from their web site:

‘NANTA’ figuratively refers to reckless punching as in a boxing match. ‘NANTA’ is a non-verbal performance of free rhythmical movements that dramatize customary Korean percussions in a strikingly comedic stage show. Integrating unique Korean traditional drumbeats in a western performance style, NANTA storms into a huge kitchen where four capricious cooks are preparing a wedding banquet. While cooking, they turn all kinds of kitchen items – pots, pans, dishes, knives, chopping boards, water bottles, brooms and even each other- into percussion instruments.”

Sounds like the “cooking” aspect fits in well with the Festival, also.

Tickets for this year’s Mickey’s Trick or Treat Party at DCA are now on sale to Annual Passholders. We have information on this year’s party, including the dates, on our page HERE.

At DCA, the new restrooms in the Golden State area have opened. They are across the “street” from the old ones, which will be demolished when they start to build the new Little Mermaid attraction. The new restrooms (the womens’ side, at least) are huge. And I’m happy to say that the new faucets are the really nice aerated ones – they don’t spray water all over the place like most of the other restroom faucets in the park do. (That’s one of my pet peeves.) They also have the motion-activated paper towel dispensers, too.

King Triton’s Carousel of the Sea has re-opened after a fairly lengthy rehab. I just love all of the colorful and smiling sea creatures on this attraction. And they are all bright and shiny and look like new. It looks to me like the major change was re-theming the top of the attraction.

Work continues in on the World of Color show in Paradise Bay. There’s more stuff on on the bottom every time I visit.

They are also working on the amphitheater viewing area.

I visited the Wine Shop again to get some more of the Sapphire Hill Very Late Harvest Zinfandel that I bought a couple of weeks ago – I served it at my Chocolate Party last weekend and we all really enjoyed it.

Over at Disneyland, I was surprised to see the Evil Queen from Snow White greeting guests in Fantasyland. She was appropriately disdainful and haughty – some of the kids didn’t quite know what to make of her.

Peter Pan’s Flight is undergoing refurbishment and is scheduled to re-open on June 8. There are signs on the walls around it that say “Sorry, no flights to Never Land today”. 🙂

When writing the blog on the Celebration Roundup and BBQ, one question Deb Koma raised was whether there were food alternatives for picky kids – like mac and cheese. So I asked. Nope, what’s on the menu is what everyone gets – no alternatives. It was about 3:30 in the afternoon when I was there – there weren’t too many people dining there.

Magical, the new fireworks show, actually has its first show on Thursday, June 11 at 8:45. And it has quite a long official name, too – the Disneyland Calendar shows it as: Magical – Disney’s New Nighttime Spectacular of Magical Celebrations In the Stars. Wow. That’s quite a lot to live up to.